Pb. Pedersen, CULTURE-CENTERED COUNSELING SKILLS AS A PREVENTIVE STRATEGY FOR COLLEGE HEALTH-SERVICES, Journal of American college health, 44(1), 1995, pp. 20-26
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Education & Educational Research
All learning occurs in a cultural context. Successful counseling can b
e achieved by training healthcare providers to interpret behaviors in
their cultural context. The author describes a culture-centered approa
ch, using a cultural grid that matches same/different behaviors with s
ame/different expectations. Clients with shared positive expectations
may display dissonant and apparently negative behaviors. Culturally ac
curate knowledge and culturally appropriate skills provide a three-lev
el developmental sequence for more accurate and more appropriate healt
hcare guidance in such multicultural settings as those met on the coll
ege campus.